3. Committee Observations and Opinion 3.1 The Committee has observed that the Provincial Department has in the past years provided support to the Municipality in terms of section 154(1) of the Constitution. Section 154 of the Act mandates national and provincial government to support and strengthen the capacity of municipalities to manage their own affairs, to exercise their powers and to perform their functions. However, the Naledi Local Municipality demonstrated its unwillingness to fulfil its executive obligations owing to the administrative and financial mismanagement, and current political instability which was prevailing in the Municipality.